Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.
The market for nonsense is infinite.
Nature doesn't cheat - people do.
[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.
Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.
My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place. ' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.